This is Congressional over reach, hubris for political pandering, a waste of time and money to the use of the government as a sincere asset to the people. Republicans pretend to protect the USA Constitution as if no one else does, they don't even understand it.
H.R. 2231, OFF SHORE ENERGY AND JOBS ACT (click here)
The bill requires mandatory drilling and over rides States Rights and the right of property to control their land values. They are even REQUIRING offshore
drilling in Santa Barbara.Here we go again with "Pandering for Petroleum
Donations."President Obama is threatening a veto. The bill is unconstitutional. Drilling leases are offerings. This bill turns them into impositions on the rightsof citizens to enjoy their land and water.
Bill Summary & Status (click here)
113th Congress (2013 - 2014)
H.R.2231
It never fails to amaze me that the federal authority simply acts unilaterally
to open drilling leases as if a gift to the states, when in fact it is a
nightmare.
The only real States Rights recognized on a regular basis if that of Florida
which has beaches throughout the state. Florida is well known to want their
pristine beaches for tourism and nothing more. Can one imagine what would
happen to the Florida economy if there were oil rigs along the entire coast of
the west and east coast? The blight on the view alone would drive tourists
away from their vacations.
Why is it the rest of the states on the east and west coast isn't given the
opportunity to "Opt Out" of any oil and gas leases? California doesn't want it,
yet the federal government continues to INDULGE that Republican fantasy.
We don't disaster happening anymore. We don't want it and yet the
Republicans can't seem to 'get the picture.' Petroleum products are an
outrageous insult to a heating planet. The people don't want it anymore. The
jobs people take with this industry are horrible jobs. They are exposed to
dangerous and deadly chemicals. There is a reason why these jobs pay higher
rates than others, they'll kill a person while destroying their health. It is a horrible industry.
If a State decides the people don't want this burden they should not have impositions place on it. There are alternatives that need to be explored and expanded should the energy demands increase in the USA. There is never a measure of the 'stored energy' the USA already has. The country's energy capacity is never depleted on a daily basis. There needs to replacement of petroleum dependency with that of alternatives and conservation. We don't need to drill these lands. Peak Oil is over.
This bill makes the huge mistake of imposing demands for mandatory insults to the land. That is unconstitutional. I suppose I should be grateful for that fact, but, this level of hubris is expensive and requires resources to fight legal battles and seek interruption of this imposition and stop it. Those resources could be used for other reasons than simply fighting Hubris Legislation for the purpose of elections of Republicans. The Republican Party's wrongful elections are based in fantasy that happens to be expensive to put it back in the bottle from which the Republican Genie has come. This is ridiculous. When does the Old World Hubris end?
